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EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe

73 points by NKosmatos 4 hours ago | 24 comments

317070 36 minutes ago

It's odd that you can see the borders between Belgium and France for various birds (like the swift and cuckoo), same for the border between Germany and Poland.

I wonder why that is? There are no topological features defining these borders. Maybe the data is normalised in some way across countries?

Cthulhu_ 33 minutes ago

If this is based on bird spotters, I'd say the national bird spotting organizations don't report or watch for the same birds.

_joel 26 minutes ago

The birds remained part of the schengen zone and have freedom of movement :)

barnacs 16 minutes ago

This website wants to connect to Google, Amazon, Cloudflare and Twitter among others right off the bat. Great job with the data sovereignty, Europe!

sph 2 hours ago

Are these the flock cameras I keep reading about?

lukan 42 minutes ago

Yes and people don't like them because some want to use them to stop migration.

plaguna 2 hours ago

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karol 2 hours ago

Anything can be represented by a dot on a screen, but not everything makes sense to be appreciated in this way.

darkwater 41 minutes ago

Looks like birds really like Iberia to stay during cooler times, just like many UK, Deutsch and French citizens ;)

embedding-shape 22 minutes ago

As a person who emigrated from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, birds are not the only ones indeed :)

Most of the German/British tourists seem to come during the summer though, in contrast to the tourist birds who come during winter. Smart of the birds to avoid all the tourists!

lukan 15 minutes ago

"Most of the German/British tourists seem to come during the summer though"

That never made any sense to me. I also go rather go with the birds north in summer where it is cool and to spain in winter when it is still warm.

dncornholio 18 minutes ago

This is unusable

HarroGoerndt 52 minutes ago

Die Visualisierung auf dem Eurobirdportal ist wirklich toll gemacht. Es ist spannend zu sehen, wie Echtzeitdaten aggregiert werden, um die Migration über ganz Europa so detailliert nachzuvollziehen.

ionwake 39 minutes ago

i find the "old selection" staying up so visible on the screen distracting but i do appreciate this website thanks

jmelo11 42 minutes ago

Why the number of birds decreases and then increases? Is it because migration or due to non-observable previous times?

bcraven 20 minutes ago

This is a visualisation of Europe.

Some birds migrate outside Europe.

Hamuko 2 hours ago

Stretching the definition of "live".

embedding-shape 2 hours ago

"Real-time" been +seconds for decades at this point, pretty different from the "original" meaning, so "live" having the same treatment doesn't feel that out of place.

psyphy2 7 minutes ago

live + seconds feels pretty different from a time laps over months...

cromka 3 hours ago

How do I switch to another bird? I've been on this site for a minute and can't figure it out

mrrudik 2 hours ago

On desktop, I think you have to click on the tiny icon next to the currently visible bird's name ("select new dataset") and pick one from the list that appears on the left side of the screen.

mugul 2 hours ago

And then you have to click "update visualisation" otherwise you're still seeing the data from the previous bird

genezeta 2 hours ago

On desktop you can also click on the > icon on the top left part of the map.

selfawareMammal 53 minutes ago

Why do all public websites work like shit?

jmelo11 42 minutes ago

It looks reasonable well.

tlinden68685 2 hours ago

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